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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
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Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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DOE-EM awards $37.5M to Vanderbilt University for nuclear cleanup support
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced on January 16 that it has awarded a noncompetitive financial assistance agreement worth $37.5 million to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., to aid the department’s mission of cleaning up legacy nuclear waste.
K. Bingham Cady, Melville Clark, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 18 | Number 4 | April 1964 | Pages 491-507
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A18768
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A calculational method for Boltzmann's one-velocity, isotropic scattering transport equation is developed for cylindrical rods. The starting point is Peierls' integral equation, and the technique may be interpreted as a moments method or a variational method. Numerical results in the form of graphs are given for a set of standard problems. These problems include volume sources, surface sources, and the critical rod problem. For arbitrary, axially symmetric sources inside or outside the rod, a knowledge of the uncollided flux is sufficient to determine the escape probability from the rod in terms of these standard problems.